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Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual smartphone — Available for Android 12 and…
Reece Rogers / Wired: Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on AI agent built on OpenClaw, appearing as a contact within Microsoft Teams to automate scheduling and more — Microsoft's OpenClaw-style agent appears…
Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget WIRED
Wired: Sources: after Trump nixed an AI EO on May 21, US officials are navigating internal strife and chaotic talks; early model access was the most contentious issue — Donald Trump killed an executive order to…
Anthropic Confidentially Files for What Could Be the Largest IPO Ever WIRED
Reece Rogers / Wired: Hands-on with Gemini Spark beta rolling out to AI Ultra subs: planned a birthday party from emails and calendar, but called a live-in boyfriend a “close friend” — Google's new AI…
The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic WIRED
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, and OpenAI staff to train “continual learning” models on user interactions, raised a $15M seed at a $115M valuation — Trajectory is…
Steven Levy / Wired: A deep dive into how Claude Code and OpenClaw unleashed the AI agent revolution that is rapidly transforming the modern computing landscape — The definitive story of how Claude Code and…
Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation WIRED
Kate Knibbs / Wired: How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years — There's a mad dash to automate…
Wired: Socket: TeamPCP, the gang claiming GitHub's repositories breach, also executed 20 “waves” of supply chain attacks recently, compromising 500+ pieces of software — GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a…
Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis? WIRED
Wired: Filing: SpaceX set aside $530M for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok's “Spicy” mode, which it described as a “heightened risk” — The rocket company has set aside more than $500…
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers WIRED
Wired: Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and with XReal's Project Aura, all set to arrive this fall — Here's your first look at smart glasses coming from…
Will Knight / Wired: Demis Hassabis says companies looking to replace developers with AI may be due to a “lack of imagination and a lack of understanding” of the future — The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that…
Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI’s Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO WIRED
Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI WIRED
Alessandra Ram / Wired: A look at how the AI industry's intense pressure and high rewards are creating “walls of resentment” between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses — Are you married to a man who's obsessed…
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team — OpenAI is once again reorganizing…
Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up WIRED
The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial WIRED
Wired: As Meta prepares to lay off ~10% of its staff on May 20, sources say morale is low, and Meta forcibly moved 1,000+ engineers to an AI unit to build GenAI models — Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of…
OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court WIRED
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: WhatsApp launches Incognito Chat, an AI chat mode built on Private Processing that Meta says lets users talk to AI without Meta being able to access the chats — The company says its new…
WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private WIRED
Molly Taft / Wired: Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site — Emails show that Elon Musk's company is…
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Foxconn says some of its North American factories suffered a cyberattack in recent days; ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8TB of data — Famous for helping build Apple's iPhones…
Ruth Fowler / Wired: A Hollywood writer recounts working as an “AI trainer” for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the “new waiting tables” for entertainment workers — For screenwriters like me—and job…
Wired: Musk v. Altman docs: Microsoft execs had reservations about funding OpenAI in 2018 but worried that withholding support could push OpenAI into Amazon's arms — Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of…
Julian Chokkattu / Wired: An interview with Google VP for Health and Home Rishi Chandra on shutting down Fit by the end of 2026, Fitbit's rebrand to Google Health, Health Coach, and more — Google is sunsetting Google…